Sessions and the ICE department accused the mayor of allowing 800 dangerous illegal immigrants to roam the city, a number Schwab said was “misleading.”

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“Personally I think her actions were misguided and not responsible. I think she could have had other options. But to blame her for 800 dangerous people out there is just false,” Schwab added. “It’s a false statement because we never pick up 100% of our targets. And to say they’re a type of dangerous criminal is also misleading.”

The DOJ contends that Schwab “doesn’t dispute the number but says: ‘we were not ever going to be able to capture 100 percent of the target list’ of roughly 1,000 undocumented immigrants in Northern California,” according to a statement sent to The Daily Caller News Foundation.

However, Schwab told the San Francisco Chronicle that he quit because he did not want to give a false number to the public.

“I asked them to change the information. I told them that the information was wrong, they asked me to deflect, and I didn’t agree with that. Then I took some time and I quit,” Schwab said.

ICE said while they disagreed with Schwab’s take on the issue, they wished him well.

“Even one criminal alien on the street can put public safety at risk and as Director Homan stated, while we can’t put a number on how many targets avoided arrest due to the mayor’s warning, it clearly had an impact. While we disagree with Mr. Schwab on this issue, we appreciate his service and wish him well,” the department told TheDCNF in a statement.

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